A short interview on Erratum Press, its Academic Division, and some of the motives behind the press. Thanks to Caroline Ball and the Open Book Collective. obc.copim.pub/odd-books-an... @openbookcollective.bsky.social

Odd books, and the work of keeping them alive: in conversation with Ansgar Allen of Erratum Press

We sat down with Erratum Press founder, Ansgar Allen, to talk about defiant publishing, the state of the university, and why open access is anything but the easy option.

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'Through the nights of five years their campfires threw red light on the lava cliffs and touched the moving river with the mystery of transitoriness [...]' Wallace Stegner - Angle of Repose

'It's a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.' James Baldwin - If Beale Street Could Talk

It's getting towards the end of the month, and it would be wonderful to sell 10 of these packages - any option - to help ensure we can pay all the bills and wages. Books in the post - surprise packages - what's not to love?! #BookSky www.treehousebookshop.co.uk/shop

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'How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!' Jane Austen - Persuasion

'But true passions are egocentric.' Stendhal - The Red and the Black, tr. Roger Gard

Very excited to present UNDERTOW. This will be a showcase of new and emerging writers of weird and wonderful fiction. If you'd like to take part, please click here: www.seamusheaneycentre.com/news/Callfor...

It’s publication day for this beautiful book. Congratulations @markabowles.bsky.social

I've begun a big new novel (working title: Sligeach)—Yeats, Sligo, Irish history, folklore, and bodily decrepitude. To help fund the research, I'm offering redeemable creative writing vouchers (no expiry date, and they can be gifted). If you'd like to support, just send me a message. Thank you.

'[...] a handful of stars lying, like glittering pebbles, on the black level of the night.' ~ The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane

From Simina Banu's 'I will get up off of', irreverent and insightful, a contemporary poetry collection alert to the making of art in the modern world

'And all they did was look, no question, No answer, neither frown nor smile, no move Of lip or eye or brow or eyelid pale But all one long look which consumed his soul Into desire beyond the reach of hope' ~ A. S. Byatt - The Fairy Melusine, from Possession

'[...] the fact, to put it crudely, that there are sad children and happy children, said Korin, that he was a sad little child, one of those who throughout his life is slowly, steadily consumed by sadness [...]' ~ László Krasznahorkai - War and War, tr. George Szirtes

'Perennially outmatched by circumstance, inadequately endowed with compensatory graces.' From the long denouement of George Saunders' profound and very moving treatment of the death of Abraham Lincoln's son, Willie, Lincoln in the Bardo

'[...] grandmothers, tolerant and frank, recipients of certain dark secrets, who, by the quality of their unjudging listening, granted tacit forgiveness, and thus let in the sun.' ~ George Saunders - Lincoln in the Bardo

'When we imagine ourselves to be in a state of mind, no matter what, we are in that state of mind [...], in every state that we imagine ourselves in.' ~ Thomas Bernhard - Walking, tr. Kenneth J. Northcott

'Let me sadly affirm that I did; it did; they were; she did.' In awe of the exquisite arrangement of this paragraph from Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie; a paragraph, like the novel itself, containing multitudes

‘It’s a captivating, slyly sophisticated novel’ We're delighted to announce the winner of the #InternationalBooker2026, supported by Bukhman Philanthropies, is Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translated by Lin King. Discover the book: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

'What is the wind, what is it.' ~ Gertrude Stein - Tender Buttons

'[...] - the delicate tracery, the intricate crisscross of colourless lines, the cold waiting veins of the future.' ~ Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children

remember the pleasure Frank O’Hara, ‘Lines to a Depressed Friend’

Wishing @smwwriting.bsky.social a happy publication day for MALC’S BOY! A bold, irreverent, funny, intellectually nimble debut novel exploring fathers and sons, northern working-class culture and masculinity. It’s our launch title & a novel like no other. From all good bookshops as of today 23.4.26

J. H. Prynne wrote a guide to reading works of literature for Cambridge students. This was the postscript:

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'[...] one universe, one cosmos: contained in one America: one towering frantic edifice poised like a card-house over the abyss of the mortgaged generations [...]' ~ William Faulkner - Requiem for a Nun

Very excited to receive my copy of Malc's Boy by Shaun Wilson. Timely themes in a raw, experimental literary form - sign me up. Out now from @conduitbooks.bsky.social

Lines excerpted from Thomas Hardy's The Convergence of the Twain, his poem on the loss of the Titanic

'It is obviously a plot to weaken the holy name of Mother. That is why Mother murmurs a prayer to Jesus; the prayer is heard by no one, including the addressee.' ~ Elfriede Jelinek - The Piano Teacher, tr. Joachim Neugroschel

incommunicable contemplations

'[...] so that instead of being stuck there he could go on and by the grace of God lead his own life, undestroyed by what was not his doing.' The beautiful closing line of So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell